Nazanin Noori’s artist book THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST is an expansion of her solo exhibition of the same title at CCA Berlin in 2024, where the artist merged sound, sculpture, and text to create an immersive installation addressing the psychic aftermath of political protest. While emerging from the recent resistant movement against the Islamic Republic of Iran sparked off by Jina Amini's death in 2022, the sonic-poetic assemblage also goes far beyond this context, delving into the digital dissemination of protest more broadly, the emotional (im)mobilization of the public, and the spectatorship of suffering. 

At the heart of the book is a graphic poem composed by Noori in English, which extends the exhibition’s word sculptures (MY HEAVY HEARTED HEAVY HOME WALKS ON HEAVY HEARTED HEAVY FEET). Across the pages, words from the long poem overwrite a Shia ritual chant in Farsi, ای کوفیان بی وفا (“O Kufians, You Who Are Faithless”). Originally written by Shahab Mousavi as a lament for the Battle of Karbala—a tragic event in Shia Islam commemorated annually during Muharram—the chant was first performed during ceremonies in Yazd, Iran in 2012 by an all-male choir, and later repurposed as a political slogan in the Jina Amini protests: بیزارم ("I'm tired / I'm fed up / I hate").
 

In a graphic polyptych dialogue, the Farsi chant embodies a patriarchal chorus, while the English poem offers a subversive feminist commentary, voiced by the artist herself.

Alongside the main book, a supplementary booklet features essays by Athena Athanasiou, Rosa Burç, Nan Xi, and an introduction by Fabian Schöneich, presented in both German and English. These contributions contextualize Noori's work through the lenses of social anthropology, sound studies, political science, and contemporary art.